CVE-2016-1494: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 7.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The verify function in the RSA package for Python (Python-RSA) before 3.3 allows attackers to spoof signatures with a small public exponent via crafted signature padding, aka a BERserk attack.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Python Rsa: before 3.3 (fixed in 3.3)

Published 2016-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.